MISSION, VISION AND HISTORY
MISSION AND VISION
Restore the Earth Foundation, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation.
Our mission is to restore the Earth’s essential forest and wetland ecosystems. We envision the Earth in balance — its original vitality and natural abundance available to all, for generations to come.
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Our work directly supports the agenda set by the global community and the United Nations, and we are proud to support targets 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals.
OUR HISTORY
Our strategy and business model were triggered by a natural disaster—one that only a comprehensive and sustained partnership between the public and private sectors could effectively address.
Our Founders were attending the White House Conference on Conservation when Hurricane Katrina slammed southern states in August 2005. The scale of the storm’s damage and devastation made it clear that no one entity – government, private nor individual—could effectively respond.
Our Founders worked alongside federal and state agencies, private, philanthropic, and community organizations to initiate landscape scale forest restoration, along the Gulf Coast. When the Deepwater Horizon oil spill occurred, Restore the Earth and its partners were the first to employ restoration on oil-soiled wetlands.
Since 2008, Restore the Earth Foundation has secured more than $400 million in private and public funding to support long-term restoration and stewardship across priority landscapes.
400,000+
of forest and wetland landscapes have been restored across the Gulf Coast region
Measured forest growth and land health outcomes tracked over time to assess long-term resilience and productivity
21,700,000
metrics tons of CO2 has been sequestered
Equivalent of taking ~4,717,390 cars off the road for one year
15+ Billion
gallons of freshwater annually
retained, filtered, or redirected through improved land and watershed management
Since 2008, Restore the Earth Foundation has secured more than $400 million in private and public funding to support long-term restoration and stewardship across priority landscapes.
OUR PARTNERS
